Sabre Wulf Remastered(gp-64.com)
52 points by adunk | 8 comments
Official page for Sabre Wulf Remastered, a Genesis Project remake of Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze game for the Commodore 64, with downloads, screenshots and guides.
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41 stories tagged retro-gaming, newest first.
One Must Fall 2097 Remastered(github.com)
38 points by hmm37 | 21 comments
GitHub repository for a TypeScript/WebGL2 remaster of the 1994 robot fighting game One Must Fall 2097, with HD art, mods, LAN play and desktop/browser builds.
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens(scabshack.lol)
55 points by surprisetalk | 19 comments
A blog post reminiscing about the memory card save file screens of sixth-generation consoles like the Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2, and original Xbox.
OpenDE: Play Deus Ex 1999 demo in the browser(opende.netlify.app)
8 points by klaussilveira | 1 comments
OpenDE is a web page that lets users play the 1999 Deus Ex demo directly in the browser.
PalmOS Lemmings(github.com)
142 points by memalign | 33 comments
GitHub repository by ardiri containing a Lemmings clone for PalmOS, with source, level packs, images, and compiled PRC builds.
Porting video games to VHS(gardinerbryant.com)
41 points by Kate0CoolLibby | 26 comments
Bryant Review article about a modder inspired by a 1980s VHS-based console who builds interactive VHS versions of Doom and Super Mario Bros.
Espresso machine can run Doom(gamespot.com)
13 points by speckx | 3 comments
GameSpot article about an espresso machine that has been modified or programmed to run the classic game Doom.
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP(github.com)
125 points by therepanic | 12 comments
GitHub repository for PSPi Version 6, an open hardware project that fits a Raspberry Pi into a Sony PSP shell, with board files and firmware.
Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)
78 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.
Run Windows games (up to D3D9) in the browser(bottleship.pages.dev)
5 points by vasyop | 0 comments
BottleShip is a web app that runs classic Windows games (up to Direct3D 9) in the browser, with a library of built-in demos and support for adding games.
A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600(plicerin.github.io)
14 points by plicerin | 4 comments
A browser-playable recreation of Activision's 1982 Atari 2600 game River Raid, rebuilt instruction by instruction from the original ROM, with notes on how it was built.
We ported the original Doom to SQL(cedardb.com)
293 points by Vaslo | 45 comments
CedarDB blog post describing a port of the original 1993 Doom game logic and renderer to SQL, running inside the database with Python only handling timing and display.
Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)(mightygodking.com)
34 points by peter_d_sherman | 21 comments
A 2008 MightyGodKing blog post presenting photoshopped parody Atari 2600 game box covers, framed as finds from a garage sale.
Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games(log.schemescape.com)
6 points by zdw | 1 comments
A personal memoir blog post about hacking SimCity 2000 saved game files in the DOS era.
Commodore 64: Mercenary(gamesexplained.com)
45 points by a1r | 6 comments
A Games Explained minisite explaining how the 1985 Commodore 64 game Mercenary works, including its rendering of the city of Targ, with source code and maps.
2DWillNeverDie(2dwillneverdie.com)
319 points by surprisetalk | 82 comments
2D Will Never Die is a retro-styled website celebrating 2D video game pixel art, featuring a sprite gallery with downloadable character sprites.
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly(babyloniantwins.com)
356 points by rabahs | 123 comments
Developer's blog post on porting his 1993 Amiga game Babylonian Twins, written in 68000 assembly in Baghdad, to the Godot engine with help from an LLM.
How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026(phoboslab.org)
453 points by atan2 | 231 comments
Dominic Szablewski's blog post on making a new Nintendo 64 game in 2026, following his port of a JavaScript game engine to C.
Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy(swag.htmx.org)
467 points by rcy | 158 comments
Product page on the htmx swag store selling a $25 Game Boy cartridge game themed around htmx 4.0, a joke release of the library.
CSSQuake(cssquake.com)
475 points by msalsas | 101 comments
CSSQuake is a browser-based recreation of id Software's Quake built with CSS, shown here at its main menu with single player, options and help.
SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)(thran.uk)
463 points by speckx | 185 comments
A personal blog post explaining how to get SimCity 3000 running well on a modern Windows 10 PC with a 4K monitor, fixing widescreen, resolution, and scrolling issues.
DOS Zone(dos.zone)
321 points by rglover | 73 comments
DOS Zone is a website offering a large collection of classic DOS and retro PC games playable online in the browser, including on mobile and offline.
Space Cadet Pinball on Linux(brennan.io)
318 points by jandeboevrie | 108 comments
A blog post explaining how to play Space Cadet Pinball, the Windows XP game, on Linux via a reverse-engineered open-source port installable as a Flatpak.
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I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video](youtube.com)
439 points by msephton | 79 comments
YouTube video by James Lambert explaining how he built an open-world game engine running on the Nintendo 64.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible(redgamingtech.com)
522 points by croes | 292 comments
RedGamingTech article covering a project that statically recompiles PlayStation 2 games to run natively on PC.
Doom has been ported to an earbud(doombuds.com)
383 points by arin-s | 115 comments
DoomBuds is a project site that runs Doom on internet-connected earbuds, with an embedded live Twitch stream of the game being played.
Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)(fabiensanglard.net)
421 points by birdculture | 75 comments
Fabien Sanglard's article on how Capcom fixed the "World Warrier" typo in Street Fighter II's title screen just before shipping, part of his CPS-1 series.
Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES(relaxing.run)
358 points by todsacerdoti | 150 comments
A blog post reverse engineering the aircraft carrier landing sequence in the NES game Top Gun, giving the exact altitude, speed, and alignment requirements.
Microsoft makes Zork open-source(opensource.microsoft.com)
575 points by tabletcorry | 219 comments
Microsoft Open Source blog post announcing the open-source release of the source code for the classic text adventure games Zork I, II, and III.
How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one(32bits.substack.com)
319 points by bbayles | 77 comments
A Rings of Saturn Substack post examining the 1997 PlayStation game NCAA Basketball Final Four 97, including a hidden marriage proposal, plus World League Basketball.
The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks(wololo.net)
413 points by zdw | 121 comments
Wololo.net news post about a homebrew release that lets the 20-year-old Sony PSP connect to WPA2-secured WiFi networks.
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development(pikuma.com)
627 points by atan2 | 298 comments
Pikuma blog article explaining jungle music's origins and why it suited soundtracks of 90s PlayStation and Nintendo 64 era games.
Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin(32bits.substack.com)
433 points by bbayles | 118 comments
A Rings of Saturn newsletter post reverse-engineering Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future with Ghidra and Python to uncover hidden save-name cheat codes.
Happy Birthday Lemmings(scottishgames.net)
414 points by Timothee | 125 comments
A Scottish Games Network post marking the 33rd anniversary of the release of the classic puzzle game Lemmings.
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds(arstechnica.com)
543 points by dagenix | 75 comments
Ars Technica article about a modder who reconstructed bootable Game Boy Advance games, including Pokémon, by recording the audio produced when the games crash.
FPGA N64(ultrafp64.com)
374 points by AndrewDucker | 74 comments
Homepage of ULTRA FP64, a project billed as the world's first FPGA implementation of the Nintendo 64, showing a dev board running an N64 cartridge.
"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming(blog.jgc.org)
366 points by rcarmo | 117 comments
John Graham-Cumming's blog post announcing Two Stop Bits, a Hacker News-style link site for retro computing and gaming built on modified Arc HN source code.
I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17(macstories.net)
378 points by cocacola1 | 44 comments
MacStories article about using a Game Boy Camera as an external webcam for FaceTime video calls on an iPad running iPadOS 17.
Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation(deat.tk)
423 points by generichuman | 101 comments
Intended page for Jazz² Resurrection, an open-source reimplementation of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, but it returned an Apache 503 Service Unavailable error.
GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy(gbstudio.dev)
326 points by CharlesW | 36 comments
Homepage of GB Studio, a drag-and-drop retro game creator for the Game Boy, available on Windows, Mac and Linux via itch.io.
McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game(retrododo.com)
821 points by outime | 300 comments
Retro Dodo news article about McDonald's releasing Grimace's Birthday, a new Game Boy Color-style game, in June 2023.